This week FDA finalized its Preventive Controls final rules. However, due to the size of the document it is not expected to appear in the Federal Register for several weeks.

Jenny Scott, Senior Advisor, FDA CFSAN Office of Food Safety, and Dr. David Acheson of The Acheson Group, will be discussing this rule along with broader FSMA implementation during the ABA October Policy Conference.

ABA has supported FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), but has long advocated for flexibility in FDA’s rule proposals. ABA has also urged FDA to provide adequate compliance time for implementation.

In its efforts regarding the preventive controls rule, ABA:

Was victorious in seeking an exemption for ambient temperature warehouses and depots that store packaged food and sought an exemption for facilities that hold packaged ingredients and food under refrigerated conditions